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Microsoft this week launched a second major attack on Gmail, with a new Scroogled campaign aimed at highlighting the privacy issues with Google’s web-based email service. As with the previous Scroogled campaign, which focused on a bogus Google...

It looks like Google's secretive efforts to bypass the privacy settings in Apple's Safari aren't limited to just that browser. Now Microsoft says that Google has similarly bypassed the privacy settings in Internet Explorer (IE). And Google, rather...

A Stanford researcher discovered that Google was purposefully circumventing the privacy settings in the iPhone's web browser in order to store cookies that track users' movements online. As soon as this was revealed publicly, first in a Wall...

Responding to critics, online giant Google this weekend unveiled a simpler new privacy policy that it says replaces over 60 different privacy policies across its various services. The policy was revealed in an email to customers less than a week...

As part of its ongoing effort to pre-empt the introduction of apps that create potential privacy issues, the non-profit privacy advocacy group Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) has launched a new website to help application developers provide users of...

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) spoke out after the recent hearing in the U.S. Senate about consumer privacy and protection in the mobile market with a set of guidelines and suggestions for...

In the wake of the recent hubbub over research that claims Apple is collecting location data from users of several of its devices, Nielsen has released the results of a study indicating that the majority of mobile users are concerned about privacy...